America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era

An examination of how the subterranean pulp genres of crime novels, B-movies, & science fiction helped express the underlying aspects of confusion & alienation during the period of postwar confidence & prosperity. The works of Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, Rod Serling & the Twilight Zone, Patricia Highsmith, & Roger Corman, along with others are closely examined.

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This book can be best regarded as an examination of some the precursors of the counter-culture of the Sixties, as Cochran considers how the new found respectability of modernism (dulling its ability ... Read full review